has anyone here ever been in a Focus Group for Food testing? Paid Market Research on Food? Its a bunch of hungry people in a room or they mail you like a month's worth of granola bars, etc. You evaluate which one tastes the best, they attempt to ask lots of other questions because we all learned that Pepsi wins the taste tests every time, but people prefer to buy coke.
Its easy to blame the food companies, but they are responding to the demand of an uneducated consumer. We are rigged by our caloric dopamine stimulation survival mechanism to give the most calorically dense foods the win, which is an amazing trait to have if you live in a part of the world where food is scarce. We live in a toxic food environment where toxic dopamine bombs have to compete against other toxic dopamine bombs to produce the most toxic & addictive food substances of all time.... Monster Energy Drink...
A Freedom of Information Request revealed that from 2004 to 2012 the Food and Drug Administration had received reports of five deaths occurring after drinking Monster Energy.
If food companies could put opiates back in food they would & the consumers would demand it like they demand the prescription opiates. I see no different than directly selling opiates to children than selling the analog foods that cause our brains to over opiate.
Responsibility & Education are part of the next evolutionary shift. It will continue to be a sad Darwinian movement of Gary Taubes that lead the lemmings off the cliff.
